The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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